Traveling through the famine, I stockpiled supplies like crazy

Chapter 565 Harvesting Sweet Potatoes

The old man got the answer he wanted and quickly agreed with a smile. He didn't buy anything and ran home quickly, fearing that Xu Han and the others would not accept his money if he ran too slowly.

Xu Han looked at the old man running away, smiled, and then she felt stressed. Could she eat so many sweet potatoes by herself?

Who cares! Just collect it first, it won't cost much anyway. Even if it can't be sold, it doesn't matter. It's just a cost of money and manpower, not a big loss.

At worst, you can keep it all for yourself. You can't finish this much sweet potato wine for many years based on your consumption capacity.

Well, it will take ten or twenty years. After all, sweet potato wine cannot be eaten as a meal.

After they were busy for a while, Han Qi came over with everyone else.

Xu Han glared at him when she saw him, and then Lu Chuan also looked at him. But now was not the time to settle accounts with him. There were too many people, so he should just focus on harvesting sweet potatoes first!

Han Qi felt a little scared when he was watched by the couple, so he rubbed his nose and quickly joined the battle. He spent the whole morning walking on thin ice, fearing that he would not do well and be caught by the two of them.

When Xu Han saw the people coming, he quickly began to arrange work for them. Juxiang took over the job of collecting the money, and Xu Han was responsible for the overall control and personnel deployment.

The sweet potatoes have been harvested and there is no time to delay. Besides, it does not require so many people to harvest the sweet potatoes, so Xu Han directly arranged for the remaining people to wash and cook the sweet potatoes.

We have to start making sweet potato wine as soon as possible, otherwise it will not be able to sell well in time for the New Year.

Fortunately, this shop was originally used as a restaurant, and the shop is large, so there is naturally a lot of space in the backyard.

Of course, the restaurant’s kitchen was also extremely large, which was why Xu Han chose to use it as a temporary sweet potato wine workshop.

The servants washed the sweet potatoes in the yard and took them to the kitchen to steam them. The tools for steaming the sweet potatoes were also brought from the mountains, but they were not enough.

When he first arrived, Lu Chuan ordered some new ones, and they are almost ready now. If they are not enough, he will ask Han Qi to go and see how many are ready and bring them back to use first.

There were eight stoves in the big kitchen, both large and small. A few people started steaming with the big one. Zhang Yi and his people set up a few more large stoves nearby. They first used the two big iron pots at home. The newly bought big iron pot would also be available in the afternoon.

Firewood and other things were also brought from the mountains by Han Qi and his companions. The Taoist priest knew that making sweet potato wine required a large amount of firewood, so he asked them to bring it so that they didn't have to buy it.

Don't underestimate the amount of firewood used. To make so much sweet potato wine, the firewood needed for the entire process would cost a lot of money if you bought it.

In that era, a bundle of firewood cost two cents. Just to keep several large stoves burning and cooking all day would cost more than a hundred cents.

The main reason is that the firewood bought is not as durable as the firewood chopped at home. Since there is firewood in the mountains and it doesn’t cost any money, I naturally choose to bring it directly from home.

In this way, a lot of money can be saved, so Xu Han certainly wouldn't be stupid enough to buy firewood.

In this way, everyone joined in the work and was so busy that they didn't even have time to eat lunch.

Xu Han looked at the endless stream of people delivering sweet potatoes and the yard full of sweet potatoes, and suddenly she felt worried.

I didn't expect them all to come together. In just one morning, the originally empty shop was filled with sweet potatoes.

It was not good for everyone to keep busy like this. Seeing that the lunch was getting cold, Xu Han hurriedly called everyone, "Don't be busy yet, you guys go take turns to eat. The food gets cold quickly in this cold weather, so you have to eat it while it's hot. Leave a few people to harvest sweet potatoes, and the rest of you can stop and eat first."

After Xu Han finished speaking, the rest of the people quickly divided up the work and began to take turns eating.

After a morning of work, everyone had made great achievements, and the restaurant was filled with steamed sweet potatoes.

Xu Han looked at Mrs. Li who came to deliver the meal and said, "When you go back, call everyone in the house to help. Don't worry about the sanitation of the house for now. Just focus on the work here first.

In the afternoon, you and the people in the house should quickly clean up the upstairs. If you don’t make room, there will be no place to put the cooked sweet potatoes.”

Mrs. Li responded and turned around and went back to the house without waiting for everyone to finish their meal.

She is not blind. The lady and the master have already started working. If she stays here, won't she be asked to be scolded?

We should hurry back and call for help. We must not delay the master’s business.

Lu Chuan and Han Qi had lunch first, and then they went to get the tools needed to steam sweet potatoes.

Xu Han hadn't finished her lunch yet when the man delivering the wine jar arrived.

This batch of wine jars were also made when Lu Chuan came down the mountain. He specially went to a place that made custom ceramic jars and specifically told the owner to work overtime to make them as they would be used urgently at home.

With such a large amount of business coming in all of a sudden, Shopkeeper Liu naturally didn't dare to neglect it. He worked day and night to prepare the products, and sent them over immediately after he finished making a batch.

When Xu Han saw the person who came to deliver the wine jar, she was a little surprised. "Manager Liu, long time no see. You guys are really fast. I thought it would take at least two days to deliver it!"

This was not the first time that Shopkeeper Liu had met Xu Han. Knowing that she was the one who could take charge, he smiled and took over the conversation, "Hello, Madam Lu. I thought you were in a hurry to use it, so I found someone to help, so it will be faster.

A portion will be delivered today, and the rest will have to wait two days."

Xu Han looked at the quantity delivered and waved her hand, "There's no rush to make the rest. The ones delivered today are enough for us to use for a few days.

But you guys should also start preparing to make the small wine jars, as we will need them in about a month."

When Manager Liu heard this, he took out the sample of the wine jar that had been fired in advance and said, "This is the wine jar made according to the drawing you gave me. Do you think it works? If it works, we will fire it according to this later."

Xu Han took the wine jar and looked at it carefully again and again. The shape and pattern were all made according to the drawing she gave.

In addition, we have cooperated on ceramic jars before, and now the workmanship and quality of this wine jar are the same as before.

Seeing this, she smiled and nodded with satisfaction, "I trust you to do the job, just do it according to this in the future.

Although the quantity of our customization is a little larger now, you still have to guarantee the quality.

If the quality can’t be maintained in the same way as before, I will consider changing people.”

When Shopkeeper Liu heard this, he knew what Xu Han meant and quickly assured that there would be absolutely no quality issues.